This is what the Lord says: “Go and buy a clay jar from a potter.^l Take along some of the elders^m of the people and of the priests ²and go out to the Valley of Ben Hinnom,ⁿ near the entrance of the Potsherd Gate. There proclaim the words I tell you, ³and say, ‘Hear the word of the Lord, you kings^o of Judah and people of Jerusalem. This is what the Lord Almighty, the God of Israel, says: Listen! I am going to bring a disaster^p on this place that will make the ears of everyone who hears of it tingle.^q ⁴For they have forsaken^r me and made this a place of foreign gods^s; they have burned incense^t in it to gods that neither they nor their ancestors nor the kings of Judah ever knew, and they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent.^u ⁵They have built the high places of Baal to burn their children^v in the fire as offerings to Baal—something I did not command or mention, nor did it enter my mind.^w ⁶So beware, the days are coming, declares the Lord, when people will no longer call this place Topheth^x or the Valley of Ben Hinnom,^y but the Valley of Slaughter.^z

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Cross references

l Jer 18:2
mSee Nu 11:17; 1 Ki 8:1
nSee Jos 15:8
o Jer 17:20
pSee Jer 6:19
qSee 1 Sa 3:11
rSee Dt 31:16; Dt 28:20; See Isa 65:11
sSee Ex 20:3; See Jer 1:16
tSee Lev 18:21
uSee 2 Ki 21:16
vSee Lev 18:21; See 2 Ki 3:27; Ps 106:37–38
wSee Jer 7:31; Eze 16:36
xSee 2 Ki 23:10
ySee Jos 15:8
z Jer 7:32